"The more individualized we become, the more we resemble each other."

"The more organized society becomes, the more individual freedom is threatened."

"The tragic element of culture is that the objective spirit, once created, comes to stand over and against the subjective spirit, whose expression it is, and ultimately crushes it."

"To the extent that money, with its colourlessness and its indifferent quality, can become a common denominator of all values, it becomes the frightful leveller — it hollows out the core of things, the…"

"The modern individual lives in a constant tension between freedom and necessity."